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Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?
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Andy Moreton |
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Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why? |
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Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:48:15 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt) |
On Tue 31 May 2011, Davis Herring wrote:
> On 05/29/2011 09:57 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> I can see why you'd want that,
>>> Well, good. Is there a way to get it? That's the question.
>>
>> AFAICT, there is no way to get it in the general and default case (when
>> bidi-display-reordering is non-nil), which is the only case which would
>> make sense to solve.
>
> I think what Drew wants is to have in startup.el something like
>
> ;; ...load .emacs
> (if (default-value 'bidi-display-reordering)
> (global-set-key (kbd "<left>") 'left-char)
> (global-set-key (kbd "<left>") 'backward-char))
> ;; ...and C-f, M-b, M-f, etc.
The help strings for 'left-char and 'backward-char could use some work.
It is unclear which moves according to screen display order and which
moves according to buffer character order.
AndyM
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?,
Andy Moreton <=
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/01
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Andy Moreton, 2011/06/01
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/02
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Andy Moreton, 2011/06/02
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/02
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Andy Moreton, 2011/06/02
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/02
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Andy Moreton, 2011/06/02
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/02
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Andy Moreton, 2011/06/02